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Legal Extern

Lansdowne, VA

Make a difference with us! At Alliance Defending Freedom, we believe God has brought you here for His purpose—to stand for truth and defend the God-given right to live and speak it. Together, we protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights. Review our Statement of Faith to ensure we’re a fit for you.

Locations: Lansdowne, VA 

Team Overview

Alliance Defending Freedom is looking for a Legal Extern to join us in our Lansdowne, VA office or Home Office.  As a Legal Extern, you are an integral part of the Legal Advocacy Team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to gain some experiences similar to a first-year associate attorney (e.g., researching and preparing legal memoranda, drafting legal documents, observing attorney strategy meetings, observing moots and legal hearings) under a close supervision of a licensed attorney.

Key Responsbilities

  • Perform legal research regarding various legal topics.  This includes computer-based research of cases, statutes, codes, regulations, and other related materials.  Some research may require visiting various law libraries to research specialized materials.  
  • Draft memorandums of law and other legal documents.  This will require the capacity to analyze the law, apply the law to specific factual situations and independently write legal arguments applying the law and analysis.
  • Consult with legal staff about strategy and assist with developing or conveying legal advice.
  • Attend and observe attorney strategy meetings, moots, and legal hearings.
  • Perform work under the supervision of a licensed attorney but must be able to perform research in an investigative manner that does not require step-by-step instruction.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Completion of at least one year of law school with specialized training in legal research
  • Proficiency in organizational, analytical, attention to detail, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to professionally handle confidential information

Preferred Qualifications

  • In order to qualify as an extern, participation in an academic program that allows students to obtain credit for the externship or as a part of an established internship program is preferred

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

  • We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
  • We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
  • We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
  • We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
  • We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
  • We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.
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